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The movement should be OUTWARD toward the interstitial fluid. This is because the blood pressure is greater than the osmotic pressure (or more correctly the onconic/colloid pressure, since the membrane is actually quite permeable to ions but is not permeable to plasma proteins), and thus fluid (water and ions, along with other small molecules) can flow OUT of the capillary bed.

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Filtration results when substances are forced through capillary walls by osmotic pressure?

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Why water and dissolved substances leave the arterioles end of the capillary and enter the venule end?

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